Narrating the Postcolonial nation : mapping Angola and Mozambique / Ana Mafalda Leite, Hilary Owen, Rita Chaves, Livia Apa (eds).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leite, Ana Mafalda, editor.

Contributor:

Owen, Hilary, 1961- editor.

Chaves, Rita, editor.

Apa, Livia, 1963- editor.

Series:

Reconfiguring identities in the Portuguese-speaking world / edited by Paulo de Medeiros and Cláudia Pazos-Alonso ; Vol. 2.

Reconfiguring identities in the Portuguese-speaking world / edited by Paulo de Medeiros and Cláudia Pazos-Alonso ; Vol. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Angolan literature (Portuguese)--History and criticism.

Angolan literature (Portuguese).

Literature and society--Angola.

Literature and society.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Angola.

Physical Description:

VII, 291 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Peter Lang, [2012]

Summary:

The essays collected in this volume look at the way that Mozambican and Angolan literary works seek to narrate, re-create and make sense of the postcolonial nation. Some of the studies focus on individual works; others are comparative analyses of Angolan and Mozambican works, with a focus on the way they enter into dialogue with each other. The volume is oriented by three broad themes: the role of history; the recurring image of the voyage; and discursive/narrative strategies. The final section of the book considers the postcolonial in a broader Lusophone and international context.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Ana Mafalda Leite Introduction; Iain Chambers Power, Language and the Poetics of the Postcolonial; Part 1 Historical themes; Gilberto Matusse The Narrative of the Nation in Craveirinha; Carmen Lucia Tindó Secco The Other Feet of History: A Reading of Choriro by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa and O Outro Pé da Sereia by Mia Couto; Ana Mafalda Leite Rewriting the Thresholds of History in Order to Re-Think the Nation; Inocência Mata The Memory of Colonization and the Sentence of the Future in the Figuration of the Nation; Sheila Khan Utopias and Aporias: The Measure of a Nation's Dreams.

Part 2 The voyage themeLaura Cavalcante Padilha Novels as Travel Diaries: The Case of Angola; Rita Chaves Ruy Duarte de Carvalho's Desmedida: The Voyage as Synthesis and Invention; Kamila Krakowska The Voyages of the Postcolonial Nations in Estação das Chuvas and Terra Sonâmbula; Giulia Spinuzza The Reconfiguration of the Nation in Eduardo White's Janela para Oriente; Part 3 Discursive strategies; Hilary Owen Women on the Edge of a Nervous Empire in Paulina Chiziane and Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa.

Nazir Ahmed Can A House of Marked Cards: The Public Discourse of the Political Elite in the Novels of João Paulo Borges CoelhoTânia Macedo Reflection and Aesthetic Development in the Work of Manuel Rui; Livia Apa Nation and Narration: What Does African Cinema Tell Us?; Jessica Falconi Some Thoughts around the Invention of the Lusofonia Narratives; Notes on Contributors; Index of Names.

ISBN:

9783034308915

3034308914

OCLC:

897118973

Publisher Number:

99960154388